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Title: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:00:25: (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/calaveratf/wtf_zps9d0aa931.jpg~original)

How is this one guy bidding continuously without getting outbid until the very end by the other guy? I thought ebay doesn't increase bids to your maximum set bid unless you're outbid by someone else?
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: REVENGE on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:02:10: I don't think he's bidding, rather someone else is bidding and the second-price is getting updated.
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:04:01: But if someone did bid and got instantly outbid shouldn't his username show up as well?
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: okooko on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:18: Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:00:25
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How is this one guy bidding continuously without getting outbid until the very end by the other guy? I thought ebay doesn't increase bids to your maximum set bid unless you're outbid by someone else?

im assuming the winner bid more than the other buyer (as he tried to increment his bids)
what ever the winner bid, it was 2.50 or more than the next highest.

winner could have put in like 12312312412 but yeah
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: Michael on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:34: When you set the max amount you are willing to spend, it will auto-outbid the person until they surpass the top price you bid.
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: Photekq on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:57: Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:04:01
But if someone did bid and got instantly outbid shouldn't his username show up as well?
Not the way it works. For example :

A sets max bid as $100
A is current highest bidder at $50
B sets max bid as $70
B's bid doesn't show up
A is now current highest bidder at $71 (70+increment)

Quote from: Bro Caps on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:34
When you set the max amount you are willing to spend, it will auto-outbid the person until they surpass the top price you bid.

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Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: okooko on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:06:45: Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:04:01
But if someone did bid and got instantly outbid shouldn't his username show up as well?

yeah it does, so the s***2 guy got outbid by an earlier bid(which won the acution) and was logged each time he tried to increment it up
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:18:53: Quote from: Photekq on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:57
Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:04:01
But if someone did bid and got instantly outbid shouldn't his username show up as well?
Not the way it works. For example :

A sets max bid as $100
A is current highest bidder at $50
B sets max bid as $70
B's bid doesn't show up
A is now current highest bidder at $71 (70+increment)

Quote from: Bro Caps on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:05:34
When you set the max amount you are willing to spend, it will auto-outbid the person until they surpass the top price you bid.

1337

So the guy that got auto outbid doesn't show up at all.

Quote from: okooko on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:06:45
Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:04:01
But if someone did bid and got instantly outbid shouldn't his username show up as well?

yeah it does, so the s***2 guy got outbid by an earlier bid(which won the acution) and was logged each time he tried to increment it up

I was talking about whoever got outbid by s***2.
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: Photekq on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:20:35: Quote from: calavera on Mon, 03 June 2013, 01:18:53
So the guy that got auto outbid doesn't show up at all.

If he/she gets instantly outbid by someone else's maximum bid that is already in place then yes it won't show up.
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: insilica on Mon, 03 June 2013, 06:49:38: Isn't there an option on ebay auctions "Show Autobid" or something. It should show you a full log of bids no matter how small the increment is.
Title: Re: Can someone explain this ebay bidding?
Post by: RabRhee on Mon, 03 June 2013, 07:06:42: There is a "Show Automatic bids' option top right to show when eBay auto-bids and what amount. Look at the times to see the sequence. They could maybe add an option to sort by time so it would make a bit more sense. k***2 bid at 8:19 with at least $162.5, maybe 200 or 5000 for all we know.

Postal auctions work this way, where instead of bidding like a normal auction, you just set your maximum amount and you trust the auctioneer to bid as if you were in the room. Most auction houses allow this, but you are at the discretion of the auctioneer to trust them not to just stiff you for $1 below what you say your top bid will be.